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cainer said:
just waiting for my flat mate to get home so we can go round to the vets,
the results from the ultrasound are not what we were expecting at all,
looks like the bones passing though her wernt the problem, without going into too much detail atm, the Vet has advised we have her put to sleep :(
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Just read this now. I'm sorry for you mate. Cats are like family. She'll be off chasing butterflies at the rainbow bridge.
 
Does anyone else have cats with dog gates? We're getting a dog in a couple weeks so have put some gates in to stop him getting up the stairs and also to section of the place where we keep the cats food so he won't eat that. The gates have been up a few days but we've kept them open, tonight was the first dummy run of closing them but neither cat seems to be able to work out how to jump over them!

I've tried putting Dreamies on the other side but they just sit there and meow. Is it just a case of letting them figure it out for themselves?!
 
BuffetSlayer said:
We have just had this with one of our cats. It was the size of a 50 pence coin and on the lower 3rd of his back. You couldn't see it unless you stroked his fur the wrong way. Went to see the vet and he said it may have been from an abscess from a bite wound (???).

Told us to keep an eye on it. I find the abscess thing hard to believe as they are usualy painful and he gets fussed every day and when he has had them before he growls and hisses if you touch them. But the fur has started growing in again now and he seems his normal self.

The only thing I thought of was if it was a bruise from something, or a bad reaction to a flea bite?

@Space Monkey - we use Effipro. Seems effective, but we have only used if for the last couple of years.
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The only time we had anything like this was from a spot-on wormer (pro-fender iirc) we got from the vet. It stripped the hair off Murray where it touched him and took a whole season to grow back.
 
Street said:
Does anyone else have cats with dog gates? We're getting a dog in a couple weeks so have put some gates in to stop him getting up the stairs and also to section of the place where we keep the cats food so he won't eat that. The gates have been up a few days but we've kept them open, tonight was the first dummy run of closing them but neither cat seems to be able to work out how to jump over them!

I've tried putting Dreamies on the other side but they just sit there and meow. Is it just a case of letting them figure it out for themselves?!
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Did you not get ones with bars that they can squeeze through?

Failing that put them on the side you want them to jump over when they're hungry and make a big fuss about the food.
 
knip said:
Did you not get ones with bars that they can squeeze through?

Failing that put them on the side you want them to jump over when they're hungry and make a big fuss about the food.
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One has got a door in, but we can't really open that until the dog is a bit bigger. The other one was a much bigger gap and I couldn't find one with a door to cover that, but I could modify it or bend the bars.

Hetty has managed to figure out how to jump over them anyway now, nothing can separate her from her food! Dex was still being pathetic though and even after watching Hetty jump over he refused. I'll give them a bit more time then I might have to think about modifying the bars.
 
Street said:
One has got a door in, but we can't really open that until the dog is a bit bigger. The other one was a much bigger gap and I couldn't find one with a door to cover that, but I could modify it or bend the bars.

Hetty has managed to figure out how to jump over them anyway now, nothing can separate her from her food! Dex was still being pathetic though and even after watching Hetty jump over he refused. I'll give them a bit more time then I might have to think about modifying the bars.
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I would say, persistence. If you watch the cat being pathetic and not making the jump, and open the gate for it, that becomes the trained solution. If the cat is hungry and can smell the food it will make the jump.
 
Yeh, true! Just felt a bit cruel when I left him sat there behind the gate meowing at his food. I'll be more firm and leave the gates closed as we did only try for a few hours last night.
 
The cat will learn in due course. With my last cat I tended to fall over myself making life easier when she gave that little baby sounding cry, which I have since learnt via a documentary that cats have learnt as a means to get their way. With my present cat I tend to be a bit more resolute though at times I do relent and mentally slap the back of my head.
 
ha ha, she can be, shes getting a right diva in her older years (shes 14 now) - still as quick and agile as she was 10 years ago though !
 
Sleepy cats :)

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i picked up Heidi's ashes from the pet cemetery yesterday and had her ashes and a fur clipping housed in a 'sleeping cat' casket, the same as i did for Jester,
they each have an engraved plate underneth with their names and life years so they'l never be forgotten.

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i think thats much better than just having photo's,
but that reminds me, i need to make some physical copys of some of the pics i have of them on my phone and pc,
a lost phone or broken SSD would see those pics gone for good, i/we shouldnt rely so much on digital storage
 
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Here's three of ours. We did have five but now have 4 (one died after her second litter but we have one of her daughters)

Hmm struggling to share from Flickr
 
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